List of Surrealist poets
This is a list of Surrealist poets, known for writing material within the Surrealist cultural movement that began in the early 1920s.
Surrealist poets
- Will Alexander - American Surrealist poet, novelist, essayist, playwright
- Louis Aragon - French poet who co-founded the surrealist review Littérature
- Braulio Arenas - Chilean poet and writer, founder of the surrealist Mandrágora group
- Antonin Artaud - French poet, essayist, and dramatist who created the "Theatre of Cruelty"
- André Breton - French poet and writer known as the leader and principal theorist of surrealism
- Jorge Cáceres - Chilean poet and artist, a member of La Mandrágora, a Chilean Surrealist group
- Garrett Caples - American poet and former music and arts journalist
- Aimé Césaire - French and Martinican Surrealist poet and a founder of the Negritude movement
- Teofilo Cid - Chilean poet, member of La Mandrágora surrealist group
- Andrei Codrescu - Romanian-American poet, novelist, screenwriter, NPR commentator
- René Crevel - French writer
- René Daumal - French spiritual para-surrealist writer and poet
- Robert Desnos - French poet and member of the French resistance against the Nazis
- Paul Éluard - French poet
- Andreas Embirikos - Greek poet and psychoanalyst
- Nikos Engonopoulos - Greek poet and painter
- David Gascoyne - English poet and translator
- Enrique Gómez Correa - Chilean poet, lawyer and diplomat
- Andrew Joron – American poet, three-time winner of the Rhysling Award
- George Kalamaras - American poet and professor, former poet laureate of Indiana
- Noelle Kocot - American poet
- Philip Lamantia - American poet and educator
- Michel Leiris - French writer
- Mary Stanley Low - British-Cuban surrealist poet, artist and Latin teacher
- Joyce Mansour - Egyptian-French author and poet
- Ciaran O'Driscoll - Irish surrealist poet
- John Olson - American Surrealist poet and novelist
- Valentine Penrose - French surrealist poet, author, and collagist
- Benjamin Péret - French poet and a founder of the French Surrealist movement
- Alejandra Pizarnik - Argentinian poet
- Gisèle Prassinos - French writer
- Franklin Rosemont - American poet, artist, historian, street speaker, and co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group
- Penelope Rosemont - American visual artists, writer, publisher, and social activist
- Tomaž Šalamun - Slovenian surrealist poet
- Philippe Soupault - French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist
- James Tate - American Surrealist poet and Pulitzer Prize winner
- Tristan Tzara - Romanian French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist
- César Vallejo - Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist
- Jeffrey Cyphers Wright - American poet and critic
- John Yau - American poet and critic
- Dean Young - American poet and poet-laureate for Texas in 2014